Really worrying bug in Windows (dual-boot with Dapper, after hibernate)

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:37, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 15:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > This isn't really necessary - run Linux using UTC as normal.
> > Configure Windows to never adjust the time and not to change the
> > CMOS clock.
>
> I wouldn't know how to go that...

I forget too :-)
Somewhere in Control Panel

> > I do this and I'm in SAST +2:00,
>
> What is "SAST" ?

South African Standard Time

> > the only downside is that the clock in Windows is 2 hours behind.
>
> So it doesn't work then...

Strictly speaking that's right - it doesn't work. But it's OK for me, 
as I couldn't care less about the clock in Windows. I suspect most of 
us here do all (most?) of our work that needs time-stamps from Linux.

> > No big deal, it's not my primary OS
>
> Yes...
>
> > and I like me I think you use Window only for games and other
> > mostly time-irrelevant purposes
>
> I don't do any gaming at all. The only 3D "game" (well, flight sim
> really) I like, X-Plane , runs on Linux. And even then, I don't use
> it because I don't find it mature enough to my taste, so I don't
> think I will be playing it before 3 years at best.
> No really, if I keep Windows it's purely to have it handy, "just in
> case". To date I have only needed it to workaround problems that
> arise every now and then in Linux because of proprietary formats,
> some videos, some acrobat files, some MS Office documents, some
> websites with crappy flash animations, things like that...

I keep it to help with occasional hardware detection (!)
I had the worst ever time trying to figure out what my on-board 
network card was - it wasn't being autodetected by any distro at the 
time. Windows revealed it to be an nForce-something. That's how I 
found it to be a forcedeth - conveniently masked out in menuconfig 
due to it *still* being experimental.

Oh, and I have to sync my phone over IR from Windows - the STIr4210 
dongle driver isn't in the kernel tree and I get tired of 
re-compiling the sort-of-working external driver, as well as vmware, 
and ati, and several other bits with every kernel change (2 or 3 
times a week lately...)


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how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
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